


Democrats: One-Party Rule Is The Only Way To Save ‘Democracy’
âȘ At this point, it would save everyone time if Democrats could simply point to a policy agenda item that isnât going to save democracy â if such a thing actually exists.
âSave Our Democracyâ is the new âRussia Collusion.â If Republicans vote, they are killing democracy. If they donât vote, they are killing democracy. The only way to âsave democracy,â writes The Washington Postâs Max Boot, is to empower one-party rule:
A position that probably sounds counterintuitive to anyone with a middle-school education. âNow you need to vote to literally save democracy again,” contends President Joe Biden, or we will lose our âfundamental rights and freedoms like the right to choose, the right to privacy, the right to vote â our very democracy.â
Chilling stuff. But it doesnât end there. You will remember that by failing to âreformâ the filibuster, which would entail authorizing the thinnest of fleeting majorities to shove through massive generational âreformsâ without any national consensus or debate, we are also killing democracy. This has been the position not only of left-wing pundits and the New York Times editorial board, but also senators tasked with defending their institution. I wonder if they will support this democracy-saving fix next session, as well?
Then again, if we donât nationalize the economy to avert a climate crisis, we are also killing democracy. âWeâve got to save democracy in order to save our species,â Jamie Raskin explains. And if we donât empty the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to temporarily keep gas prices low to help Democrats win in 2022, we are killing democracy. âWe find ourselves in a situation, where keeping gas prices low is key to preserving and strengthening the future of our democracy,â MSNBCâs Chris Hayes says:
We must allow the president to unilaterally create trillion-dollar spending bills and break existing private sector contracts by fiat. For democracy. We must pack the court to âsave democracy.â We must create a Ministry of Truth to help with âstrengthening democratic institutions.â We must vote for a Pennsylvania candidate who canât cobble two consecutive coherent sentences together because the âfate of our democracyâ is at stake, says our former president.
If you donât support a partisan congressional investigation thatâs circumvented basic due process norms, you probably hate democracy. If you arenât self-flagellating and holding yourself accountable for the actions of Jan. 6 rioters, you are also bolstering the coming autocracy.
If the Supreme Court empowers the public to vote on an issue like abortion, unmentioned anywhere in the Constitution, it is âdegradingâ our âdemocracy.â If the court protects rights that are explicitly mentioned in the Constitution from the vagaries of the political process, it is also undermining democracy. Which is convenient.
The only way to save democracy is to allow one party (guess which one?) to federalize elections, so they can compel states to count mail-in votes that arrive 10 days late, legalize ballot harvesting, force the overturning of dozens of existing voter ID laws, allow felons to vote, create onerous burdens to chill speech, and empower bureaucrats to redraw congressional districts. Otherwise ⊠well, you know.
Youâll remember last year, when left-wingers were arguing that Mike Penceâs support for basic voting ID â backed by around 80 percent of the American public and implemented in virtually every free nation â heralded a âPermanent Authoritarian Rule.â The president called Georgiaâs moderate voter law, âodious, pernicious, vicious and unconscionable.â A âsubversionâ and âsuppression,â the â21st-century Jim Crowâ and the sure sign of an emerging âautocracy.â In 2022 early voting in Georgia is âshattering records.â
Then, of course, there are the nefarious âelection deniers.â You know, âThe Big Lie?â If Democrats believed âelection denialâ was an existential threat to American âdemocracy,â they probably wouldnât be perennially engaging in it.
The American left hasnât accepted the legitimacy of a Republican presidential election win since 1988. Democrats âsave democracyâ by pumping millions into the primary campaigns of âelection-denyingâ Republicans to try and set up a more favorable general election.
Just last night, Hillary Clinton, one of numerous prominent Democrats who wouldnât accept the legitimacy of the 2016 presidential election, claimed that âright-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election.â This is the kind of preemptive election denialism Democrats have been engaged in for nearly two decades. Democrats donât lose elections; they are victims of gerrymandering or voter suppression or âstructuralâ problems or too much free speech or Fox News or Russian gremlins.
Beginning in 2016, the Democrat Party descended into the politics of hysterics. It began with a mind-bending tale of a second-rate power stealing our democracy with a few Facebook ads and a Manchurian candidate. The collective psychotic break that followed was bolstered by an unethical political media and a corrupt investigation into the president that was predicated on an opposition-research document filled with fictions, distortions, and Russian disinformation. Democrats wanted to cripple the president. They succeeded.
Since then, a large swath of the Left has become so reliant on infantile fear mongering, that they seem incapable of debating any issues or dealing with the reality of an opposition party. When theyâre not slandering political opponents as (semi-) fascists or racists or misogynists or homophobes or transphobes or death cultists, theyâre engaging in cloistered pseudo-intellectual debate-club discussions on âsaving democracy.â
Democrats, who have spent years delegitimizing the Supreme Court and rule of law, undermining legislative norms, cheering on unprecedented and blatant executive abuses, and using the DOJ to target their political enemies, among other âdemocracyâ-destroying behaviors, do not occupy any high moral ground. And while âdemocracyâ was once just a transparently silly euphemism for âstuff we want,â it has since evolved into a rhetorical device that denotes a decisively illiberal mindset. âȘ























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